03-08-2009, 10:46 AM
Yah it put a great perspective on Americans and slavery too.
The whole world thinks we invented it, we propagated it and were completely proud of it where in fact it was the Dutch who started the whole slave trade (or was at least one of the biggest instigators of it), England funded it and if it weren't for wanting to keep the southern states when we broke from England, slavery in this country would have been abolished with our founding. Yet we still had the shortest history of slavery in the entire world and everyone bashes us as if we were the only country that did such a horrible thing.
We never tried to 'breed the black' out of any race. We never tried to genetically reengineer any race.
Sadly we still are shitting all over our native peoples. Hopefully one day that can be fixed but I don't expect to see that in my lifetime.
The whole world thinks we invented it, we propagated it and were completely proud of it where in fact it was the Dutch who started the whole slave trade (or was at least one of the biggest instigators of it), England funded it and if it weren't for wanting to keep the southern states when we broke from England, slavery in this country would have been abolished with our founding. Yet we still had the shortest history of slavery in the entire world and everyone bashes us as if we were the only country that did such a horrible thing.
We never tried to 'breed the black' out of any race. We never tried to genetically reengineer any race.
Sadly we still are shitting all over our native peoples. Hopefully one day that can be fixed but I don't expect to see that in my lifetime.